Password Quotes

“If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.”

“It's proper Netiquette to protect data with passwords. NetworkEtiquette.net”

“The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.”

“Dear 2600: I think my girlfriend has been cheating on me and I wanted to know if I could get her password to Hotmail and AOL. I am so desperate to find out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. And this is yet another popular category of letter we get. You say any help would be appreciated? Let’s find out if thats true. Do you think someone who is cheating on you might also be capable of having a mailbox you don’t know about? Do you think that even if you could get into the mailbox she uses that she would be discussing her deception there, especially if we live in a world where Hotmail and AOL passwords are so easily obtained? Finally, would you feel better if you invaded her privacy and found out that she was being totally honest with you? Whatever problems are going on in this relationship are not going to be solved with subterfuge. If you can’t communicate openly, there’s not much there to salvage.”

“If you've never mistyped your password, it isn't complex enough.”

“All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.”

“By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.”

“You don't need passwords, you don't want to check phones. Sometimes you only want the other person to just tell you the truth!”

“There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.”